Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[CAPRICORN-88]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1520230482977325059

Undoubtedly they are legitimate targets.

 

[gambit]

I have explained in this thread on why it is not easy to transfer Western jet fighters such as the F-16 to Ukraine because of major design differences that would take the learning curve and time beyond the urgency that Ukraine have for their pilots. Not that Ukrainian pilots cannot learn the differences and make adjustments, but that they will not have the TIME to learn.

Here is one testimony of that difference...

For NATO pilots trained to fly MiGs, learning to fly the F-35 'is far too much to grasp,' former F-35 test pilot says

The former F-35 test pilot Billie Flynn told The Aviationist that moving to the "cosmic spaceship" that is the F-35 was too much to ask of MiG pilots.

www.businessinsider.com

"Every part of how we mechanize the aircraft in the West is different from how Russians design their aircraft — every part of philosophy of how you fly an airplane, how you design cockpits, how you process information is different," Flynn told The Aviationist.​

​

"To say to an F-16 pilot, hey, we're Lockheed Martin, and we build the aircraft the certain way, and switches the certain way, and now we're going to give you the next generation of that, there's a logic flow of our design, of the F-16, as the baseline, that kind of looks like what the F-35 is," Flynn said. "That does not exist for the MiG cadre."​

When I transitioned from the F-111 to the F-16, from centerstick to sidestick, from mechanical to fly-by-wire, it required a mental change. Not impossible, but different people needs different time and training/learning methods. And it is not confined to flyers but includes maintainers. In the end, it would be better off if former Soviet bloc countries give their Soviet era fighters to Ukraine.

But there is an important side issue here. What does it mean for air forces that flies 4th that may face 5th? According to US 'propaganda', the F-22 and F-35 have 10-1 kill ratios in exercises, and those were against line fighters like the F-15 and F-16. Now the F-35 is flying with some NATO air forces.

 

[thetutle]

1. "If Russia manages to keep parts of Ukraine" - this would be a huge blow to nuclear non proliferation

Very good point. It will give any nuclear power the pathway to change borders as it sees fit. This is of course unacceptable.

2. NATO is charted to defend NATO territory not Ukraine. Look how NATO countries are supporting Ukraine now, which is a neighbour and was a distant candidate country. Now imagine, what would happen if NATO territory is attacked. This situation is making NATO very powerful( look Finland/Sweden )

Absolutely.

How many nukes did the US drop on Japan? It only takes a few instances of mass destruction before the other side surrenders.

Japan didnt have any way to reposed to being nuked. Ukraine has nato which said it will repost to a Russian nuke on Ukraine in some capacity. Its safe to assume that such a response will have a deterrent effect.

I believe this war was engineered by the US/UK and continental Europe got played. US/UK deliberately sabotaged the growing detente and economic partnership between Europe and Russia.

You must be a Chinese Australian, who else would have such a strange view on the events. Not even a Russian would say something absurd like that.

The Western narrative is that Putin wants to recreate the USSR but, if that were true, he would start with the resource rich CARs. He can swallow them up in a week with minimal resistance.

He does not want a new USSR. He wants a new imperial russia. CAR's are already under his control to a sufficient degree for now. Of course he will take them in the future if necessary. They now it and are living in fear. And they cant be defended by NATO very well. For this its necessary to have Iran or Afghanistan onside.

I find the Russian narrative more credible: that ethnic Russians were being killed in eastern Ukraine and that Zelensky is a US puppet who was planning to join NATO. US did not tolerate Russian missiles in Cuba. Why should Russia tolerate the reverse on its borders? The US/UK pushed NATO eastwards, with the deliberate aim to provoke Russia, and Western Europe was dumb enough to not foresee the consequences.

NATO is spreading eastwards because those countries fear russia. And tis their choice to join or not. Russians or Russian speakers were not oppressed in Ukraine. Zelinsky is a Russian speaker.

Fun fact: 25% of Russians don`t have a toilet at Home, Comparing to 3% in Poland. Ukraine wants to be more like Poland, than Russia. Simple explanation, why they fighting so hard.

You are trying to explain this to a person from a country where 1% of the population have access to a flush toilet.

The US Congress has just approved the Lend Lease Act which empowered Biden to despatch more weapons from their own depleted arsenal to Ukraine.

What does all this means?

You will soon find out.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Zalensky also asked for USD 600 billion after the war for reconstruction.

Do you think the war will ever finish? Ethnic wars like this one never finishes.

 

[thetutle]

Another mysterious fire, this time in the only big energy plant of Sakhalin....thats in the far east of Russia. The turbine room is on fire. The plant was evacuated. So far Russia tries to keep the remaining turbines running, becauye entire energy net on Sakhalin will collapse if the plant is destroyed. The fire is still not under controle and intensifies.


Here directly from kremlin propaganda Ria Novosti.

https://ria.ru/20220430/pozhar-1786287070.html

Mysterious things happen all over Russia.

These things are normal and very accidental. They happen all the time.

Ukraine will pay for this sabotage.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Russians or Russian speakers were not oppressed in Ukraine. Zelinsky is a Russian speaker.

Speaking a language means nothing. Just because someone speaks English does not make that person ethnic English. It is mother tongue that matters.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

Either way, Ukrainians will be the eventual loser.

Now they will lose everything in the post Russia invasion Ukraine. Ukraine will be shattered into many nations just like what happened in Yugoslavia by the US and NATO.
But the debt for the supply of those weapons to US is REAL. The prices of these outdated weapons in US stockpile supplied to Ukraine will be UP TO THEM. Ukrainians have no say whatsoever.

That is why IMO fmr President Petro Poroshenko and current President Zalensky should be arrested and tried for treason.

Poroshenko has started integrating his AZOV neo-Nazi followers into the Ukrainian Military beginning in 2014 in coercion with the plan of US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and NATO.

The plan was to dilute the support of duly elected President Victor Yanukovych who was illegally ousted in the Maidan revolution.

Victor Yanukovych supporters were mainly from Eastern Ukraine and so the genocidal killing lead by AZOV neo-NAZI battalion began in Donbass.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1520230482977325059

Dnipr river is the widest river in Europe. Without bridge it is not possible to cross it. Unless Abrams tanks can swim, I don't see how they can get Abrams tanks to eastern Ukraine without a bridge.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1520273445740720128

 

[Viet]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1520190626645647362

https://twitter.com/x/status/1520189914184396806

Putin is happy but wait. That’s a temporary jump. At the moment Europeans or Germany in particular import record gas from Russia to fill the reserves.
Germany with 30 percent that is very low reserves, still need months to fill to 100 percent. Depending on the inflow it will take one day for fill one percent.

 

[Apollon]

These things are normal and very accidental. They happen all the time.

Ukraine will pay for this sabotage.

I heared the sakhalin plant burned because a storm in black sea

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1520262746553520128

https://twitter.com/x/status/1520255190284206080

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

China Calls Russia Relationship a‘New Model’for the World​

• Foreign Ministry says two nations don’t cause confrontations
• U.S. warned China against backing Moscow’s war in Ukraine

Bloomberg News
April 29, 2022, 5:27 PM GMT+8

China stepped up its rhetorical support for Russia, defying the U.S. and other nations who want Beijing to condemn Moscow for the war in Ukraine.

“An important takeaway from the success of China-Russia relations is that the two sides rise above the model of military and political alliance in the Cold War era,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said, adding that they “commit themselves to developing a new model of international relations.”

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

China Calls Russia Relationship a‘New Model’for the World​

• Foreign Ministry says two nations don’t cause confrontations
• U.S. warned China against backing Moscow’s war in Ukraine

Bloomberg News
April 29, 2022, 5:27 PM GMT+8

China stepped up its rhetorical support for Russia, defying the U.S. and other nations who want Beijing to condemn Moscow for the war in Ukraine.

“An important takeaway from the success of China-Russia relations is that the two sides rise above the model of military and political alliance in the Cold War era,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said, adding that they “commit themselves to developing a new model of international relations.”

If Russia needs, China can supply AH4 howitzers and 155 mm rounds to Russia via rail. It is to China's advantage to bog down America in Ukraine in a permanent war.

 

[Viet]

Wars rarely go to plan. Best option is too go all in.

Russia has 200,000 men in fighting. That’s too little for a war against a country size of Ukraine.
If Putin makes general mobilization he can add 700,000 men.
Special military operation is over.
I am curious why he will call this war?